| Show I E UNION MINERS RESPONSIBLE jon Men f en Through Their Attorney Express Disapproval W ot O i and Practices of United Mine J Workers and I Want Strike Commission to Find Against Them FI r I r floer fI an etten t t h I l tr t tI coal coni l tb lir l 1 t V mil f Jhn John T Lena Lenan tAna Ii 1 n 11 i MJ tier their r I I HJ die K n i if ii p I r i md nd c I f I practises L L I ti I 1 i m mi r e r Vie pro i i I Ho Ut submit 1 I M t 11 I a nd the c r n ILle t j I for tor I r 1 r wig act tl I I nl miners of ot Ii 0 j b that tha all al su au u T p I w guaranteed I L I work W where 1 q 1 I 1 g III antI and T 1 by I I I I i n miners IK n r lr r bi b 1 I I 1 the control t r T I n 1 I I I tro L i i y yV I I I V t Q that hat non lon m to hP I cr C t te a to t ai 1 I t they must ih thur em pi yera through tho the medium of or the un tin union iou ion In Ir the eyes of or the law la no distinction tion ton can cati exist exl t between n union and un non nonunion nonunion nonUnion union laborers They The simply are nr follow fellow servants of ot n a common cOlmon employer The fh majority may mn make such suc secret agree menu ments among themselves us they please Hut But such ch agreements cannot affect the rights of the minority no matter mater how ho small it may ma be There Ther can con be no n such thing thine na as II tho the majority rule fel rei el low lo workmen In 1 a common employment It I Is I the admitted right of or n a 1 majority of ot stockholders In a n corporation to dictate tho the policy of ot the company even fen though contrary to t the wishes of sonic fome stock Block stok holders holer solder who might thereby suffer loss Shut Hut all Al the servants of ot one master mater re to remain tomain main Individuals under our law III and yield nothing of their th lr rights to ta a 1 ma majority jorl of r their How Ho then th n could coul It I be possible for Cor this Dili commission tu to admit the right of or orthe the Mine Workers to contract on 1 of ot nonunion with n a common employer If I It I were possible Is 18 It I likely that nonunion miners would receive thu fair alt treatment at the he hands of those thone embittered by b and to monopolize nil all ni the paul position tion 1011 they the hold 1 As s Is h well wel known there are Oto diametrical difference of opinion en an I many subjects apparently affecting their common interests between union and nonunion men In all ni occupations Th The lulu or of trad t de en unions are on the principle not merely morel of or dictation by the this majority to the follow of ot ono one employer but of Huch dictation by I the iho of or nil all oi workmen engaged In iv a I particular oc oe occupation cu oton Tim Thu freedom of ot tho the Individual to lo work only to tho the dictates of ot his bin wit own Intel Inte AH H ate aio annie subservient to the supposed good gool cf ot if time the greatest number WI Vo Vu that thit tho law does docs not prohibit such combinations or 01 U rules Iules when voluntarily accepted What that we deny leny Is s thai lint any In Tin workman wot kinan can onui bo ho co into Ino accepting them tl n Whet When thin timis Ii Is done tione or Indirectly he Is lb 11 de as deprived of that liberty I bl r of action which tt the law guarantees io to him Tho rho Union prenta ns flu 11 one Oll of Its Is essential claims before this n II claim that tho the mine owners shall accept aC lt the union uI on onI im I n It I of ot the tha miners anti As ft the tho light tIght of both union and anti non nonunion an union miners miner by b conceding Its IB demands demand 11 We we deny lelY this right anti earnestly pro tOt that It be he not conceded by hy the olt og oom m without a ft 1 distinct anti and r rn ate n te violation viola lon of ot tho the law la |
